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CONSTITUTION 


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AND    ITS 


Officee^s  and   Committees. 


SPRINGFIELD 

1877 


1877 


Published  by  authority  of  the  Association, 

William  L.  Gross, 
Springfield,  ist  July,  1877.  Secretary. 


JOURNAL, COMPANY 

PRINTERS, 
SPRINGFIELD,    ILL. 


ORGANIZATION 


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At  a  Convention  of  Lawyers  assembled  in  tbe 
city  of  Springfield,  on  Thursday,  the  4th  day  of 
January,  1877,  the  Hon.  Anthony  Thornton,  of 
Shelbyville,  was  chosen  President,  and  the  Hon. 
Oscar  F.  Price,  of  Galesburg,  Secretary. 

The  representatives  of  the  Bar  present,  were  : 

Brown  Co. — W.  t,.  Vandeventer,  A.  A.  Glenn. 
Champaign  Co. — C.  S.  Swan. 
Clark  Co.— J.  W.  Wilkin,  S.  S.  Whitehead. 
Coles  Co.— O.  B.  Ficklin. 

Cook  Co.— Wm.  Vocke,  J.  B.  Bradwell,  L.  L.  Bond,  E.  B.  Sher- 
man, F.    A.  Riddle. 

Crawford  Co. — E.  Callahan. 
Cumberland  Co. — H.  B.  Decius. 
DeWitt  Co.— W.  M.  Fuller. 
DuPage  Co.— H.  F.  Vallette. 
Effingham  Co. — W.  B.  Cooper. 
Ford  Co. — John  R.  Kinnear. 
Fulton  Co.— John  A.  Gray,  T.  A.  Boyd. 
Gallatin  Co. — R.  W.  Townshend. 

Hancock   Co. — Henry   W.    Draper,   John   D.  Miller,     'Vesley    H. 
Manier,  George  Edmonds, 


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Jackson  Co.— Wm,  J.  Allen,  F,  E.  Albright,  J.  Banks  Mayham. 

Kankakee  Co. — Stephen  R.  Moore,  T.  P.  Bonfield. 

Knox  Co. — Oscar  F.  Price,   A.    M.   Brown,  H.  Chrisman, 

LaSalle  Co. — Charles  Blanchard. 

Logan  Co.— E.  B.  Blinn,  T.  T.  Beach. 

Macon  Co.— John  W.  Smith,  F.  B.  Tait. 

Madison  Co. — Joseph  Gillespie. 

Marshall  Co. — Mark  Bangs. 

McDoNOUGH  Co.— John  S.  Bailey. 

McLean  Co. — James  S.  Ewing,  E.  M.  Prince,  A.  B.  Campbell, 
John  McNulta,  J.  E.  Pollock,  T.  C.  Kerrick,  R.  E.  Williams,  D.  B.  Lu- 
cas, W.  E.  Hughes. 

Mercer  Co. — Isaac  N.  Bassett,  John  C.  Pepper,  B.  C.  Taliaferro. 

Morgan  Co. — H.  E.  Dummer,  I.  L.  Morrison,  O.  A.  DeLeuw, 
Wm.   H.  Barnes,  J.  T.  Springer. 

Peoria  Co. — ^J.  W.  Cochran,  S.  D.  Puterbaugh,  David  McCulloch, 
H.  W.  Wells,  J.  Sv  Starr. 

Randolph  Co. — John  R.  McFie. 

Saline  Co. — ^James  M.  Gregg. 

Sangamon  Co. — ^James  H.  Ma'theny,  William  L.  Gross,  A.  Oren- 
dorff,  T.  C.  Mather,  R.  L.  McGuire,  Wm.  Prescott,  R.  Wolcott,  Clin- 
ton L.   Conkling,  S.  D.  Scholes. 

Scott  Co. — James  M.  Riggs,  John  G.  Henderson. 

Shelby  Co. — Anthony  Thornton,  L.  B.  Stephenson,  H.  S.  Mouser. 

Tazewell  Co. — John  B.  Cohrs. 

Vermilion  Co. — E.  S.  Terry,  J.  B.  Mann,  Wood  F.  Townsend, 
D.  D.  Evans,  F.   W.  Penwell. 

Warren  Co.»— John  T.  Morgan. 

Wayne  Co. — James  A.  Creighton. 

WiVL  Co.— S.   W.  Munn,  D.  H.  Pinney. 

Such  proceedings  were  had  as  resulted  in  a  per- 
manent organization,  the  adoption  of  the  following 
Constitution,  the  election  of  Officers  and  the 
selection  and  appointment  of  the  several  standing 
Committees,  that  is  to  say  : 


CONSTITUTION 


The  Illinois  State  Bar  JIssociation, 


Adopted  in   Convention,  January  J^th,   1877. 


I. 

NAME. 

This  Association  shall  be  called  The  Illinois  State 
Bar  Association. 

II. 

object. 

The  Association  is  formed  to  cultivate  the  science  of  juris- 
prudence, to  promote  reform  in  the  law,  to  facilitate  the 
arl ministration  of  justice,  to  elevate  the  standard  of  integ- 
rity, honor  and  courtesy  in  the  legal  profession,  to  encourage 
a  thorough  and  liberal  legal  education,  and  to  cherisli  a  spirit 
of  brotherhood  among  the  members  thereof. 

III. 

members. 

The  members  of  the  bar  of  this  State  attending  this  conven- 
tion, this  January  4th,  1877,  are  hereby  declared  to  be  mem- 
bers of  this  Association,  provided  they  shall  on  or  before  the 


6  Constitution  of 

Ist  day  of  April,  1877,  pay  the  admission  fee  and  subscribe  to 
this  constitution  (or  otherwise  in  writing  notify  the  secretary 
of  their  acceptance  of  raembersliip.)  And  also,  all  members 
of  the  bar  of  this  State  shall  be  admitted  to  membersliip  who, 
before  that  day  shall  notify  the  secretary  of  their  desire  to 
become  members  and  pay  the  admission  fee,  and  receive  the 
favorable  report  of  the  Committee  on  Admissions. 

Any  member  of  the  legal  profession  in  good  standing,  rcvsid- 
ing  and  practicing  in  the  State  of  Illinois,  may  become  a  mem- 
ber by  vote  of  the  Association,  or  upon  nomination,  after  a 
favorable  report  from  the  Committee  on  Admissions;  and  on 
subscribing  to  this  constitution  (or  otherwise  in  writing,  noti- 
fying the  secretary  of  his  acceptance  of  membership),  and 
within  the  period  limited  by  the  by-laws,  paying  the  admission 
fee  and  annual  dues  of  the  current  year. 

OFFICERS. 

The  ofiicers  of  the  Association  shall  be  a  President,  seven 
Vice-Presidents,  one  to  be  chosen  from  each  suprenie  judicial 
district,  an  Executive  Committee,  to  consist  of  seven  members, 
one  to  be  chosen  from  each  supreme  judicial  district,  a  Com- 
mittee on  Admissions,  a  Committee  on  Grievances,  a  Commit- 
tee on  Law  Reform,  a  Committee  on  Legal  Education,  a  Com- 
mittee on  Legal  Biography,  a  Recording  Secretary,  a  Corres- 
ponding Secretary,  and  a  Treasurer,  all  of  whom  shall  be 
elected  at  the  meeting  at  which  this  constitution  is  adopted, 
and  hold  their  office  until  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the  As- 
sociation. 

V. 

PRESIDENT. 

The  President,  or  (in  his  absence)  one  of  the  Vice-Presidents, 
or  (in  the  absence  of  all  of  them)  one  of  the  members,  shall 
preside  at  all  meetings  of  the  Association. 


The  Illinois  State  Bar  As80ciatio7i.  7 

VI. 

EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE. 

The  Executive  Committee  shall  consist  of  nine  members, 
one  member  of  whom  shall  reside  in,  and  be  selected  from 
each  supreme  judicial  district. 

The  President  and  Secretary  shall  be  ex-officio  members  of 
the  Executive  Committee. 

This  Committe  shall  manage  the  affairs  of  the  Association, 
subject  to  the  provisions  of  the  constitution  and  by-laws,  and 
shall  be  vested  with  the  title  to  all  its  property,  as  trustees 
thereof,  until  the  Association  shall  be  incorporated ;  and  the 
Executive  Committee  shall  make  by-laws  for  the  Association, 
subject  to  amendment  by  the  Association.  This  Committee 
shall  have  power  to  hear  and  determine  all  charges  or  com- 
plaints received  from  the  Committee  on  Grievances,  subject  to 
an  appeal  to  the  Association. 

VII. 

COMMITTEE   ON  ADMISSIONS. 

The  Committee  on  Admissions  shall  consist  of  seven  mem- 
bers— one  from  each  supreme  judicial  district. 

The  proceedings  of  this  Committee  shall  be  deemed  confi- 
dential, and  shall  be  kept  secret,  except  so  far  as  written  or 
printed  reports  of  the  same  shall  be  necessarily  and  oflicially 
made  to  the  Association. 

VIII. 

COMMITTEE  ON  GRIEVANCES. 

The  Committee  on  Grievances  shall  consist  of  one  member 
from  each  judicial  circuit,  except  the  county  of  Cook,  which 
shall  be  entitled  to  three  members.  The  several  members  of 
this  committee  shall  receive  all  coujplaints  which  may  be  made 
in  matters  aflecting  the  interests  of  the  legal  profession  within 


8  Constitution  of 

their  judicial  circuits,  the  practice  of  the  law,  and  the  adminis- 
ti'atiou  of  justice,  aud  to  report  the  same  to  the  Executive 
Committee  with  such  recommeudatious  as  they  may  deem 
advisable. 

The  proceedings  of  this  Committee  shall  be  deemed  confi- 
dential, and  kept  secret,  except  so  far  as  written  or  printed 
reports  of  the  same  shall  be  necessarily  and  officially  made  to 
the  Association. 

IX. 

COMMITTEE   ON   LAW  REFORM. 

The  Committee  on  Law  Reform  shall  consist  of  one  member 
from  each  judicial  circuit,  except  the  county  of  Cook,  which 
shall  be  entitled  to  five  members. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  this  committee  to  consider  and  report 
to  the  Association  such  amendments  of  the  law  as  in  its  opin- 
ion should  be  adopted;  also  to  scrutinize  proposed  changes  of 
the  law,  and  when  necessary  report  upon  the  same;  also  to 
observe  the  practical  working  of  the  judicial  system  of  the 
State,  and  recommend  by  written  or  printed  report,  from  time 
to  time,  any  changes  therein  which  observation  or  experience 
may  suggest. 

X. 

COMMITTEE  ON  LEGAL,  EDUCATION. 

The  Committee  on  Legal  Education  shall  consist  of  seven 
members,  to  be  appointed  by  the  Association  from  year  to 
to  year.  Its  duty  shall  be  to  examine  and  report  what  changes 
it  is  exjiedient  to  propose  in  the  system  of  legal  education, 
and  of  admission  to  the  practice  of  the  profession  in  the  State 
of  Illinois. 

XI. 

COMMITTEE  ON  LEGAL    BIOGRAPHY. 

The  Committee  on  Legal  Biography  shall  consist  of  so  many 
members  as  the  Association  shall  appoint  from  year  to  year. 


The  Illinois  State  Bar  Association.  9 

It  sball  be  its  duty  to  provide  for  the  preservation,  among  the 
ar,-.hives  of  the  Association,  of  suitable  written  or  printed 
inemorials  of  the  lives  ;iud  characters  of  distinguished  de- 
ceased members  of  the  Bar  of  the  State. 

Xll. 
STAJNDING  COMMITTEES. 

Every  {Standing  Committee  shall,  at  each  stated  annual 
meeting,  report  in  writing  a  summary  of  its  i)roceeding  since 
its  last  anuuiil  report  (except  such  matters  as  the  constitution 
or  by-laws  require  to  be  kept  secret),  together  with  any  sug- 
gestions deemed  suitable  and  api)ortaining  to  its  powers,  duties 
or  business. 

A  general  summary  of  all  such  annual  reports,  and  of  the 
proceedings  of  the  annual  meetings,  shall  be  prepared  and 
l)rinted  by  and  under  the  direction  of  the  Executive  Committee, 
together  with  the  constitution,  by-laws  (as  then  existing), 
names  and  residences  of  officers,  standing  committees  and 
members  of  the  Association,  as  soon  as  practicable  after  each 
annual  meeting. 

Xlll. 
KECOUDING  SECRETABY. 

The  Itecording  Secretary  shall  keep  a  record  of  the  proceed- 
ings of  all  meetings  of  the  Association,  and  discharge  such 
other  duties  as  shall  be  required  of  him  by  the  Associatiou. 

XIV. 

OOKRESI'ONDING  SEOEETABY. 

The  Corresponding  Secretary  shall  (with  the  concurrence  of 
the  President)  conduct  the  correspondence  of  the  Association. 

XV. 

TKEASUREK. 

The  Treasurer  shall  collect  and  (by  order  of  the  Executive 
Committee)  disburse  the  moneys  of  Die  Associatiou,  and  dis- 


10  Constitution  of 

charge  such  other  duties  as  shall  be  required  of  him  by  the 
Assdciatiou.  He  shall  give  security  in  such  sura  and  in  such 
form,  for  the  safe  keeping  and  accounting  for  moneys  of  the 
Association  coming  to  his  hands,  as  shall  be  required  by  the 
Executive  Committee. 

XVI. 

OTHER  COMMITTEES. 

The  Association  may  provide  in  its  by-laws  for  other  stand- 
ing committees,  and  no  matter  shall  be  referred  to  a  special 
committee  which  is  relevant  to  the  function  of  any  standing 
committee. 

XVII. 

MEETINGS. 

There  shall  be  an  annual  meeting  of  the  Association  held 
at  the  city  of  Springfield,  on  the  first  Thursday  after  the  first 
Tuesday  in  January  in  each  year,  and  such  adjourued  meetings 
as  the  Association,  by  a  vote  of  three- fourths  of  all  present, 
may  determine;  and  at  any  such  adjourned  meeting,  any  busi- 
ness of  the  Association  may  be  transacted,  except  the  election 
of  officers. 

Special  meetings  may  be  called  at  any  time  by  the  Execu- 
tive Committee.  At  such  special  meeting  no  business  shall  be 
transacted  except  such  as  shall  be  specified  in  the  notice 
thereof.  At  every  meeting  of  the  Association,  the  presence  of 
25  members  shall  be  necessary  to  constitute  a  quorum. 

XVIII. 

FEES. 

The  admission  fee  shall  in  all  cases,  be  $2,  to  be  paid  on 
signing  the  constitution. 

The  annual  dues  of  members  shall  be  $2,  and  shall  be  pay- 
able yearly  on  or  before  the  first  of  May  in  each  year. 

XIX. 

EXPULSION. 

Any  member  may  be  suspended  or  expelled  for  misconduct 
in  his  relations  to  the  Association,  or  in  his  profession,  after 


The  IIHnoh  State  Bar  Association.  11 

conviction  thereof,  by  such  method  of  procedure  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  the  by  laws;  and  all  interest  in  the  property  of 
the  Association  of  ])ersons  ceasing  to  be  members  by  expulsion, 
resiouation,  or  otherwise,  shall  thereupon  vest  absolutely  in 
the  Association. 

XX. 

ELECTIONS. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  January,  1878,  and  at  each  annual 
meeting  thereafter,  there  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  the  officers 
of  the  Association  for  the  year  next  ensuing,  and  they  shall 
hold  their  offices  until  the  election  of  their  successors. 

In  case  of  a  vacancy  in  any  office,  it  shall  be  tilled  by  ap 
pointment  by  the  Executive  Committee,  which,  however  can 
appoint  only  a  Vice-President  to  the  office  of  President. 

XXI. 

AMENDMENTS. 

This  constitution  shall  go  into  effect  immediately.  It  can  be 
amended  only  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members  present 
at  an  annual  meeting  of  the  Association. 


OFFICERS  AND    COMMITTEES 


OIF" 


The  Illinois  State  Bar  Association 


IF  O  I^    18  7  7 


Piesidevi: 
ANTHONY  THORNTON, 
Shelbyville. 

Vice-Pf»sidevts  : 

A.  J.  KuYKENDALL Anna ist  District 

Joseph  Gillespie Edwardsville 2d    District 

R.  E.  Williams Bloomington 3d    District 

John  S.  T3 a  i lev Macomb 4th  District 

J.  W.  Cochran Peoria 5th  District 

G.  W.  Pleasants Rock  Island. . .    6th  District 

Stephen  R.  Moork Kankakee 7th  District 

Recording  and  Corresponding  Secretary : 

WILLIAM  L.  GROSS, 

Springfield. 

Treasurer : 

MILTON    HAY, 

Springfield. 


Isaac  Clements.  .  .  . 
William  B.  Cooper. 


Executive  Committee: 

ist  District Carbondalc 

2d    District Effingham 


The  Illinois  State  Bar  Association. 


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James  C.  Conklixo 3d    District   Springfield 

George  Edmonds 4th  District Nauvoo 

John  C.  Pepper 5th  District Aledo 

James  M.  Bkardsley 6th  District Rock  Isla 

James  B.  Bradwkm. 7th  District Chicago 

Cotnt7iitfec   on   Grievances: 

J.  M.  Bailey ist  Circuit Freeport 

Jesse  Hildrup 2d  "       Chicago 

James  Shaw 3.I  "       Mt.  Carroll 

H.  L.  Vallette 4th  "      Wheaton 

Charles  Dunham    5th  "       Cambridge 

Charles  Blanch ARD 6th  "       Ottawa 

S.  W.  MuNN 7th  "       Joliet 

O.F.Price 8th  "       Galesburg 

H.W.Wells 9th  "      Peoria 

B.  T.  ScHOFiELD loth  "•     Carthage 

Jefferson  Orr nth  "      Pittsfield 

Thomas  M.  Shaw 12th  " Lacon 

Franklin  Blades 13th  "      Kankakee 

John  McNulta 14th  "       Bloomington 

Joseph  B.  Mann 15th  "      Danville 

William  E.  Nelson 16th  "      Decatur 

E.   A.  Wallace 17th  "      Havana 

James  M.  Riggs 18th  "      Winchester 

John  I.  Rinaker 19th  "       Carlinville 

S.  W.  MouLTON 2oth  '*      Shelbyville 

E.  Callagan 2ist  "      Robinson 

Charles  H.  Thomas 22d  "      Belleville 

B.  B    Smith 23d  "       Salem 

Robert  B.  H anna 24th  "       Fairfield 

F.  M.  Youngblood 25th  "       Benton 

Samuel  P.  Wheeler 26th  "      Cairo 

William  E.  Vocke,    ■) 

C.  C.  BoNNEY,  \  . .  . .  Cook  County Chicago 

E.  B.  Sherman,  J 


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Officers  and  Committees  of 


Committee  on  Law  Reform: 

Madison  Y.  Johnson ist  Circuit 

Charles  Kellum 2d  "        

J.  K.  Edsall 3d  "  

R.    N.    BOTSFORD 4th  "  

I.  N.  Bassett 5th  "  

L.  B.  Crooker 6th  "  

C.  A.  Hill 7th  "  

John  J.  Glenn 8th  •'  

D.  McCuLLOCH 9th  " 

John  H.  Williams loth  "  

William  L.  Vandevknter  nth  "  

W.F.Henry 12th  •'  

H.    LORING 13th  "  

J.  H.  RowELL 14th  "  

Silas  S.  Whitehead 15th  "  

John  W.  Smith i6th  ■"  

William  Fuller 17th  "  

John  G.  Henderson i8th  "  

John  A.  McClernand igth  "  

George  R.  Wendling 20th  "  

Benson  Wood 2i8t  "  

S.D.Phelps 22d  "  

George  W.  Wall 23d  "  

James  A.  Creighton 24th  "  

A.  J.  Duff. 25th  "  

W.S.Allen 26th  «  

Thomas  F.  Withrow,) 

W.  C.    GOUDY, 

.  Cook  County . 


Galena 

. .  .  Sycamore 

Dixon 

Elgin 

Aledo 

Mendota 

Joliet 

.  .  Monmouth 

, Peoria 

Quincy 

.  Mt.  Sterling 
....  Danville 
.  . .  Kankakee 
Bloomington 
. . .  .Marshall 

Decatur 

Clinton 

. .  Winchester 
. .  Springfield 
. .  Shelbyville 
. . .  Effingham 
. .  .Greenville 
. . . .  DuQuoin 

Fairfield 

. .  Carbondale 
Cairo 


Mark  Bangs, 
J.  S.  Cooper, 
W.  P.  Black, 


Chicago 


Committee  on  Legal  Education: 


William  C.  Goudy. 
Henry  W.  Wells.. 
O.  H.  Browning 


.  Chicago 
. .  Peoria 
.  Quincy 


TJie  Illinois  State  Bar  Association.  15 

William  E.Nelson Decatur 

William   H.  Barnes .Jacksonville 

James  A.  Connolly Charleston 

A.  J.  Duff Carbondale 

Committee  on  Publication  of  Illinois  Reports: 

John  G.   H enderson Winchester 

Anthony  L.  Knapp Springfield 

Melville  W,  Fuller Chicago 

Sabin  D.  Puterbaugh Peoria 

Robert  E.  Williams Bloomington 


The  Annual  Meeting,  of  the  Association,  will 
he  held  at  Springfield,  on  Thursday,  January 
3d,  1878. 


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